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Show 121 "Doesn't matter. Nothing serious. Rryce can meet him later - Saturday, if possible. We're having a little get-together, and I stopped by to invite the Detachments." The officers murmured politely, and the Colonel continued. ••Hope you can make it. Dinah will call your wives." During tha interval, Bain was preoccupied. He hung up his coat, brushed the raindrops off his cap and, laying it on the radiator, joined the others. "AFTERNOON, SIR." He snapped to a salute, a football flicking a faathsr. "HAPPY TO SEE YOU." "Aftsrnoon, Captain." Ths Colonsl indicatad Bryce. "Believe you've met." "AH YES. AT THE TRAIN." He gave his right-hand-of- Christian-fellowship smile. "DON'T KNOW WE NEED TWO MEDICS, BUT SINCE YOU'RE HERE -- " His gaze swept the circle. "WHERE'S CARLTON? IN BED?" No one seemad to have an answer, but Bain did not mind; company always made him jovial. "HOPE YOU LIKE JAPAN, CAPTAIN. GRAND COUNTRY, EVEN IF IT'S FULL OF HEATHENS." Bryce nodded plsasantly. "Ws're very happy, so far. Or I am. Mother would have prsfsrrsd Kyoto." "KYOTO? DON'T KNOW I AGREE. MOT SURE THE CITIES ARE ADVISABLE, ESPECIALLY FOR SOLDIERS. TERRIBLE TEMPTATIONS: DRUNKENNESS, PROSTITUTION, DISEASE " "Dissass?" asksd Brycs. "EVERY SORT. BUT TAKE OJI: SOLDIERS DON'T HAVE TO WALK |